[Biography, english version]

José Rafael Magdalena Benedito (B.Sc. Physics 1991, Ph.D. Physics 2000) holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Valencia. Lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1994, he is currently a full professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, attached to the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia. He teaches in Physical Sciences, Telecommunications Engineering and in three university master's degrees. He was an intern at AIDO (Technological Park, 1992), responsible for Medical Physics at Dextromédica (1993), web developer at the Fundación Universidad Empresa de Valencia (1996-1997) and associate professor in the Department of Computer Systems and Computing at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (1998). He has been Director of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the UV, member of the Senate, the Consell de Govern and the Economic Commission of the UV. He has also been a founding partner of three technological companies, and mayor of the town of Segorbe in Castellón.

His research work began in biomedical engineering and telemedicine, and since 2003 he is conducting his research in the area of Machine Learning. He has 43 international publications, 97 communications to conferences and 23 books and book chapters. He has also been principal investigator in four projects and has participated as a researcher in 30 European and national projects. He has been a member of IEEE and INNS (International Neural Network Society). His areas of interest are advanced data visualization, optimization problems and quantum machine learning.

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José Javier Navarro-Pérez -Jota-. PhD in Local Development and Territory with Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Valencia. Diploma in Social Work and Degree in Criminology. Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Services. PI of the GESinn Group. Lines of research: childhood at risk and lack of protection, child abuse and mistreatment, delinquency, emancipation and youth transitions, youth street groups -AJC- and Latin gangs, sexism and myths of romantic love among adolescents, youth suicide, social change and family socialization, etc..

He teaches in the Degrees of Social Work, Criminology and Social Education in the Official Masters of the University of Valencia in Social Welfare; Social and Cooperative Economy; Development Cooperation and in the Master in Intervention and Management of Juvenile Delinquency (University of Barcelona), Master of Minors at Risk (University of Granada) and in the Doctoral Program of Therapeutic Justice (University of Vigo). He also teaches specialized courses in the training plan for Teaching and Research Staff (teaching methodologies, conflict management in the classroom and research strategies with mixed methods).

Author of more than 50 publications indexed in journals of scientific impact. Coordinator of several books, monographs and more than 70 national and international book chapters indexed in SPI. Co-author -together with Manuel Tarín, in 2006- of the book "Adolescentes en Riesgo; casos Prácticos y Estrategias de Intervención Socioeducativa Madrid, CCS", in 2015 together with M. Mestre, "El marco global de atención al menor" and in 2019 "Trabajo social con menores: el contexto de la infancia, adolescencia y juventud", Tirant lo Blanch.

He has directed innovation projects derived from public calls with the objective of knowledge transfer. In this line of teaching innovation, he is the coordinator of the State Network for Teaching Innovation in Childhood, Adolescence, Youth and Society (REIDIAJS 3.0) which brings together 72 members from 15 universities and 9 areas of knowledge. He is the author of several research documentaries of social content: "Ritmos de La Coma" is an audiovisual material that collects the experiences of children in the neighborhood of preferential action of La Coma (Paterna). A collaborative learning material (Link: https://cutt.ly/IlEPVGB). His second audiovisual work "Quo vadis, Cannabis?" is a material that addresses the consumption of marijuana in socio-educational key aimed at adolescent consumers of this substance, addressing their level of affectation in everyday life (Link: https://cutt.ly/XlEPcAK). He is currently working on his third documentary, this time presenting the difficulties of chronic mental illness, in an intimate audiovisual document "Del repudio al olvido: atención y tratamiento de los enfermos mentales crónicos en España" (From repudiation to oblivion: care and treatment of the chronically mentally ill in Spain).

He has directed competitive research projects with results of scientific transfer to society. Among others, the following stand out:

https://dap360.es/

https://www.uv.es/uvweb/universidad/es/videos/listado-videos/app-liad-prevencion-violencia-genero-adolescentes-1285868042985/Recurs.html?id=1286022575300

He has participated in transnational research projects dependent on competitive calls; he is currently Principal Investigator of the DAP 360º Project, coordinated with different areas (engineering, basic psychology and behavioral methods). He participates as coordinating researcher of the Universitat de València in the Project "Legalizing gangs. La construcción de asociaciones a partir de agrupaciones juveniles de calle en España, Ecuador y El Salvador: evaluación y prospectiva (2000 - 2025)" of the Convocatoria Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad.

Professor and Visiting Researcher at Münster (Germany), FUNLAM (Medellín), ESAN and UNSM (Lima) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He is a member of national and international research networks, such as Ociogune, Estrategi@s, REDidi and the REJS http://juventudysociedad.net/presentacion/. He is director of the Luis Amigó Chair for the promotion of children, adolescents and youth at risk - Universitat de València https://www.uv.es/catedra-luis-amigo/es/catedra-luis-amigo.html

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José Vicente Pérez Cosín (1958), social worker, doctor and graduate in sociology, diploma in local development and master's degree in social services management. Full professor at the University of Valencia. He has been director of the Department of Social Work and Social Services (2011-2017). He has been director of the Interuniversity Institute of Local Development since 2022. Teaching in two degrees: social work (research, diagnosis and evaluation; Community Social Services; Childhood and Adolescence) and nursing (health and social work) and in five postgraduate degrees: social welfare: family intervention; socio-health care for the dependent; territory and environment and local development planning; in this last master's degree he was its director (2011-2013). His research experience focuses on the analysis of public policies in welfare systems (Childhood and adolescence, Community Development, Active Ageing, etc...). He is a senior researcher in the area of social cohesion at the Interuniversity Institute for Local Development of the University of Valencia (he is the principal researcher of the Community Social Services SOCIAL-COM group); directs doctoral theses in the programs: "Local Development and International Cooperation" and "Social Sciences". Competitive European R + D + I projects and research contracts. Expert evaluator of the National Assessment and Prospective Agency and the Andalusian Science Agency. Scientific articles in national and international journals of impact, registered in prestigious institutions such as: ISI-Thomson Reuters, Scopus, Latindex, Redalyc, In-Res, DICE-Cindoc. Books and book chapters in publishing houses of excellence such as Thomson-Reuters Aranzadi, Tirant lo Blanc, Lumen-Humanitas, PUV of the University of Valencia; and prestigious as Nau Llibres.Expert evaluator in scientific journals in the area of social work and social services, local development and nursing. He was Vice-President of the first international congress of the social work area. And he regularly forms part of doctoral theses panels at Spanish universities.

He has directed and defended, to date with the highest qualification, twelve doctoral theses. He has trained predoctoral researchers with public funding from national (FPU) and regional predoctoral programs (Val R + D). Awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana (AVAP) with the first prize for prospective research. Positive evaluation of your research accredited by the National Research Evaluation Commission. Vice-president of the Conference of Directors and Deans of the Social Work and Social Services area of Spanish Universities (2013-2017).